Have you ever seen how a harvester works? If you didn't, so then I suggest just …take a look at this spectacular thing when a harvester goes over the field. …Cuz this is really, really something. And it is very, very dirty. …Whoa, yes. Because there's a lot of straw flying …around here. And this is exactly what is missing in …our image, it's too clean. It's too nice and too clean. …So we have to bring in some straw, some straw that's lying around and some dirt.…

We start with the straw and just open it. Open it, open what? …Open the file. We open the Draw > Image. …Open it and here it is. Of course, we just want this straw, we …don't want it with all this stuff here with the background. …So we have to cross the background, just cut it out, just throw it away. …(LAUGH) So we have to mask it. Masking is, it looks, it looks hard, but …it's easy. Just look at it and you can see that the …straw is a lot brighter than the rest of it.…

It's a lot more yellow than the rest. So we have in two possibilities to mask, …

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9/19/2012

In this workshop master Adobe Photoshop artist Uli Staiger takes you step by step through the process of creating the fanciful image of an old Soviet helicopter being used as a harvester. Learn how to combine supplied source images, make adjustments, and add details to create a complex, realistic scene with lots of layers. Along the way discover lots of tricks and techniques for painting with light and shadow, creating motion blur, brush-based masking, adding vignettes, and more.